1. Movie Studio Platinum
This area told me the rows in which the
frames are to be organised. The volume
area allowed me to reduce the volume for
some tracks of music.
The area in which frames are
placed. Here I could also fade in
and fade out, I could reduce the
opacity of the frame, add in
transitions, etc.
Displays the video all together.
Shows the time at
which each frame is at.
The shots I intended on
including in my production
are placed there to make it
easier for me to drag frames
to the rows.
Helped me move to the area I
wanted to view.
2. Trimmer – used to trim frames
– assistance to delete unwanted
areas
Before this coursework, I had never used MSP before because I had never really needed to. Initially, When I was introduced to it during my preliminary
task, I got very frustrated because I didn’t know what to do and everything required so many instructions, but I got used to it quite quickly.
When my school’s IT technicians changed the school’s software from Windows 8 to Windows 7, some computers were unable to use MSP, so I had to
wait to get to class to use it. At one point in time, MSP would close and delete my previous work while I was using it, and it also had other problems like
being slow, etc. MSP had the tendency to use up a lot of my time
Rendering my film took a very long time and was very difficult to do right, so I needed assistance on that front. The first time I rendered it, in order to
put it on YouTube, it did not finish rendering, so the full video was not uploaded. The other times I tried the video would refuse to even render, however
the last time I tried, it rendered perfectly.
Moreover, using MSP was tasking, although it was a very useful way to edit my video.
In order to insert special effects
and change the brightness, I used
Video FX.